Fair - Unexpected Lessons

Well our fair is over. Now all that is left is clean up. The lessons from the fair were a little different than expected. The kids learned about erosion, drainage, gravity. In Connecticut, apparently September had 9 inches of precipitation in September with 5 to 6” of that coming this past weekend. The Discovery Tent was redesigned with a river running through it (I think that may be a movie or a book – A River runs through it. It is probably a better book than location at the fair). Two performances on the main stage had to be cancelled and instead kids used the hill as a mudslide. And apparently despite the torrential rain, the fire marshal was still concerned about the fire hazards. He made the fair association fill the mud pits on our town green with gravel instead of hay. You can only imagine what our green is going to look like when the tents come down – maybe we should rename it a brown. I’ve got to tell you that I think the fair grounds were in worse shape than they were the year that Gloria shut the fair down on Friday.

The kids still had a good time and did well in their entries. And fair food is always delicious even if it is becoming ridiculously expensive. Unfortunately, due to the weather many of our non-profits did not make nearly what they normally do and they will all have financial problems this year. Tonight some of them are going to reopen as all of us townies return to pick up our prizes and entries.

DD calculated that she has now been to the fair 37 times and frighteningly, I am at 104 times (and my friends wonder why I don’t get as excited as I used to). So, goodbye fair for at least another year.